So the next time you're confronted with multiple parties to which you need to attribute actions or statements, keep the following in mind: Defendants is more than one defendant; Defendant's is the possessive of a singular defendant; and. Defendants' is the possessive of more than one defendant.

How do you make defendant plural?

The plural of defendant is defendants.

Where is apostrophe used correctly?

An apostrophe is a small punctuation mark ( ' ) placed after a noun to show that the noun owns something. The apostrophe will always be placed either before or after an s at the end of the noun owner. Always the noun owner will be followed (usually immediately) by the thing it owns.